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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Diet Assoc. 2010 Jun;110(6):911–16.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2010.03.018

Table 2.

Database of combined methylyglyoxal (MG) and carboxymetyllysine (CML) content of selected foods

Advanced Glycation End Product Content
Food item Total MG nmol/100 g Total CML kU/100 g
Solid foods (per 100 g food)
Bread, white 3,630 8.3
Bread, wheat 4,840 105
Cereal, Life (Quaker Oats, Chicago, IL) 9,000 1,452
Cheese, American 16,790 8,677
Cheese, Brie 5,670 5,598
Chicken, grilled 14,440 4,848
Chicken, microwaved (5 min) 8,350 1,524
Chicken, raw 4,170 769
Crackers, Pepperidge Farms Goldfish (Campbell Soup Co, Camden, NJ) 4,170 2,176
Egg, fried 13,670 2,749
French fries 13,130 843
Margarine, Smart Balance (CFA Brands, Heart Beat Foods, Paramus, NJ) 10,790 6,229
Salmon, broiled with olive oil 14,950 4,334
Salmon, broiled, plain 9,350 3,347
Salmon, pan fried in olive oil 9,090 3,083
Salmon, raw 6,820 527
Salmon, raw, previously frozen 6,190 517
Steak, broiled, plain 17,670 7,478
Steak, pan fried in olive oil 18,150 10,058
Steak, raw 5,860 800
Tuna, solid white packed in water 4,060 452
Total MG nmol/100 mL Total CML kU/100 mL

Liquids (per 100 mL food)
Ice cream, vanilla 620 352
Milk, whole 620 4.9
Olive oil, fresh (Colavita, Linden, NJ) 7,700 5,852
Olive oil, heated at 100°C for 5 min (Colavita, Linden, NJ) 9,700 6,295
Olive oil, heated at 100°C for 5 min + butylated hydroxytoluene (Colavita, Linden, NJ) 8,200 6,682
Olive oil, heated at 100°C for 5 min + aminoguanidine (Colavita, Linden, NJ) 7,900 5,763
Pudding, chocolate 160 16
Pudding, vanilla 110 13
Yogurt, Dannon (White Plains, NY) 830 3
Coke, diet (Coca-Cola Co, Atlanta, GA) 334 4
Coke, Diet Plus (Coca-Cola Co, Atlanta, GA) 422 2
Coca Cola Classic (Coca-Cola Co, Atlanta, GA) 13 3
Pepsi, diet (PepsiCo, Purchase, NY) 33 3
Pepsi, regular (PepsiCo, Purchase, NY) 325 2
Pepsi, diet, caffeine free (PepsiCo, Purchase, NY) 201 2.6
Pepsi Max, diet (PepsiCo, Purchase, NY) 202 3.3
SoBe Adrenaline Rush (South Beach Beverage Co, Norwalk, CT) 821 0.4
SoBe NO FEAR Super Energy (South Beach Beverage Co, Norwalk, CT) 339 0.06